There's a book by Kate Atkinson called Life After Life that describes what life during the Blitz was like and also what life in Berlin when the Sowjets arrived was like and what life as an RAF pilot was like. All stripped of patriotic nostalgia. It's horrifying but really good.
Russian astronauts have to be ardent Putin supporters (and they're not allowed to talk to others on the ISS) but US astronauts don't have to be MAGAts. Yet.
That's funny, we got our orange because he hated the other cats in his human's household, but around the age of 12 he struck up a friendship with a kitty that looks remarkably like your wee one.
Hegseth keeps firing generals who refuse to comply and he'll continue to do so until he find ones that will.